When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

  • -- Judith Martin 朱迪思·马丁

当一个社会仅仅因为大多数人无法实现自己的理想而放弃自己的理想时,行为确实会变得非常丑陋。

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But there came a point when one abandoned hope for faith, and trusted fate for charity.

但是,当一个人放弃了对信仰的希望,而把命运托付给慈善事业的时候,事情就发生了变化。

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

为了拯救自由市场体系,我不得不放弃自由市场原则。